Hi all,
I've just installed a GeForce FX5200 video card in my Linux box, and am using the the new NVIDIA 5328 Linux drivers (which I installed this morning). I've edited my XF86Config-4 file through vim, changed my driver to "nvidia" and made sure there were no 'Load "dri"' and 'Load "GLcore"' comments and saved the changes successfully. Booting into X, I now see the NVIDIA logo before the KDM starts, and my desktop now uses the card and the new drivers. Everything seems to have worked, except for one major fault: my 3D acceleration doesn't work.
glx-gears runs ultra slow, and all my 3D games like Armagetron, Chromuim, tuxracer, etc., run as slow as they do without hardware acceleration. When I run Chromium, it's as slow as about 2-3 FPS, however the output in the console states:
Code:
randomizing.
SDL initialized.
video mode set (bpp=32 RGB=888 depth=24)
-OpenGL-----------------------------------------------------
Vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer : GeForce FX 5200 Ultra/AGP/SSE/3DNOW!/forceSW
Version : 1.4.1 NVIDIA 53.28
Obviously, the drivers installed ok and are being detected without issue. I've noticed that I can use a better video renderer in Mplayer when I play video files (previously I was stuck using a pokey little window with poor picture quality.) In other words, everything works fine with this card except the thing I need to work: 3d acceleration.
Please, if anyone can help I'd be grateful -- I really want to try WineX, and have bought myself the GeForce card specifically to do this. Without 3D it's just a useless drain on my powersupply.
I'm running:
AMD 2000+ CPU
ECS L7VMM2 Socket A Mainboard
256mb RAM/20gb HDD
Albatron NVIDIA FX GeForce 5200
Mandrake 9.2 [2.4.22-10mdk kernel]
here's the relevent sections of my XF86Config-4 is:
Code:
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer
EndSection
...and...
Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection